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The Light of Day

3.37 (2,632 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Graham Swift

A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MOTHERING SUNDAY AND LAST ORDERS, and reissued for the first time on the Scribner list, The Light of Day is both a gripping crime story and a remarkable love story.

On a cold but dazzling November morning George Webb, a former policeman turned private detective, prepares to visit Sarah, a prisoner and the woman he loves. As he goes about the business of the day he relives the catastrophic events of two years ago that have both bound them together and kept them apart.
 
Making atmospheric use of its suburban setting and shot through with a plain mans unwitting poetry and rueful humour, The Light of Day is a powerful and moving tale of murder, redemption and of the discovery, for better or worse, of the hidden forces inside us.

A real in-depth study of humanity Alex Jones, BBC Between the Covers
 
I loved this so much. The form is so interesting. The voice is just so clear and theres this dryness to him too Omari Douglas, BBC Between the Covers

Praise for Mothering Sunday:
'Bathed in light; and even when tragedy strikes, it blazes irresistibly Swifts small fiction feels like a masterpiece Guardian

Alive with sensuousness and sensuality wonderfully accomplished, it is an achievement Sunday Times

From start to finish Swifts is a novel of stylish brilliance and quiet narrative verve. The archly modulated, precise prose (a hybrid of Henry Green and Kazuo Ishiguro) is a glory to read. Now 66, Swift is a writer at the very top of his game Evening Standard

Mothering Sunday is a powerful, philosophical and exquisitely observed novel about the lives we lead, and the parallel lives the parallel stories we can never know It may just be Swifts best novel yet Observer See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781471161964

About Graham Swift

Graham Swift was born in 1949 and is the author of eleven novelstwo collections of short stories including the highly acclaimed England and Other Stories and of Making an Elephant a book of essays portraits poetry and reflections on his life in writing. His most recent novel Mothering Sunday became an international bestseller and won The Hawthornden Prize for best work of imaginative literature. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels were made into films. His work has appeared in over thirty languages.

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